According to RT, due to high losses in the engineering units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the installation of AT-2 mines in the area of the villages of Privolye, Golubovka and Vasyukivka was carried out by "mixed engineering groups" of career military and personnel of territorial defense brigades.
Presumably, the roads in this direction were mined at the end of February, but the command of the mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not receive minefield maps in time due to the withdrawal of some units for rotation.
A similar situation has developed to the south in the area of Dyleevka and Ozaryanovka, 35 km south of Artemovsk. In this direction, in anticipation of the breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces, the engineering units of the 28th separate mechanized brigade mined five main roads with the help of German PARM-1 /PARM-2 anti-tank mines, after which, due to large losses, the engineering units of the brigade were withdrawn to restore combat readiness and resupply, leaving no data with the coordinates and type of mines placed.
Due to the withdrawal of units of the 28th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the tanks of the 4th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as M113, YPR-765 and Sisu Pasi armored personnel carriers of the 24th Mechanized Brigade, began to explode on mines left in the fields and near the roads.
As a result of these incidents, at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a month, about 50 more were seriously injured. According to preliminary data, more than 70% of all units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not currently have a single map of minefields around Artemovsk.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian military destroyed a hangar with drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Odessa region.